QA & Preventive Inspection for Manufacturers
Not every QA challenge is a contamination event. Supplier inputs, packaging integrity, and operational disruptions that exceed internal capacity represent a different category of risk—one that preventive third-party inspection is designed to address. These additional services from FlexXray work alongside your existing HACCP controls as an independent verification layer.
Why Preventive Inspection Is Worth Building Into Your Program
Most foreign material programs are built around response: what happens after a contamination event is identified. While sometimes necessary, that approach leaves gaps.
Supplier inputs, packaging QA, and operational disruptions that exceed internal capacity are areas where third-party preventive inspection adds a verification layer that in-house processes often can’t cover on their own.
Finding the Right QA & Preventive Inspection Service
Supplier Monitoring & Ingredient Inspection
Third-party x-ray inspection of incoming ingredients and raw materials, independent of the supplier relationship.
Can & Jar Closure Inspection
Seal and enclosure integrity inspection for canned and jarred products, including vacuum seals, pop tops, and swells.
Repacking, Rebundling & Relabeling
GMP-compliant manual labor for product that needs to be repacked, reformatted, or relabeled before distribution.
2025 Foreign Material Contamination in Food Benchmark
The 2025 Foreign Material Benchmark Report found that confidence gaps in supplier monitoring and incoming ingredient inspection were among the most commonly reported vulnerabilities across 160+ producers surveyed.
Not Sure Where to Start?
The simple answer: talk to one of our account representatives. Our QA and Preventative services are an important part of what we do at FlexXray, and we can help guide you to the right solution for your needs and your product. In some cases, a combination of our services is the right answer.
